MOOCS

According to the Journal of Travel Medicine, published by Oxford Academic, recent articles in the medical education literature “have emphasized the need for a uniform and comprehensive national education program for medical students doing international rotations.” In a letter to the Journal, Dr. Gabrielle Jacquet of Boston University Department of Emergency Medicine, Dr. Suzy Sarfaty, Boston

The Educational Technology group in DL&I is hiring a full-time on-campus educational technologist. (This is a different position from the instructional-technologist position currently being advertised in the College of Arts and Sciences.) We are looking for someone with a strong background in pedagogy and higher education, comfortable in dealing with faculty at a large research

The first course in the Digital Product Management MicroMasters program offered by Boston University, Product Management with Lean, Agile and System Design Thinking, launched on July 31st. Course participants will learn how to plan, develop and deliver on all aspects of the lifecycle of digital products. Over 12,000 learners have already enrolled! Click here to join them. Read more about

Five years and 11 million students on, Anant Agarwal, chief executive of the nonprofit organization edX, sees ample innovation to come from the venture and its university partners. Contrasting the organization’s goals against those of for-profit MOOCs, he notes that even when the organization becomes fully self-supporting, its goal will remain on doing good. “We

Last week on the EdTech blog Wendell Seale, EdTech’s MyMedia platform administrator, introduced BU’s new video streaming platform. This week we’re publishing a video that demonstrates how students can benefit from instructors’ use of video. Live now on MyMedia: Educators face a number of limitations in traditional learning environments. Student engagement can be low because

The BU Digital Learning Initiative has recently posted helpful guidelines about scripting videos for a MOOC (massive open online course). The guidelines may be of help for any use of prerecorded video in a teaching context, such as a “flipped” classroom. The infographic below identifies the multiple steps of the process.

“Boston University School of Law will launch a massive open online course (MOOC), Legal Risk Management Strategies for Multinational Enterprises, in October, becoming the first US law school to offer a MOOC in the fast-growing field of compliance.” Read the article